Flow Nexus Swarm & Workflow Orchestration
Deploy and manage cloud-based AI agent swarms with event-driven workflow automation, message queue processing, and intelligent agent coordination.
📋 Table of Contents
- Overview
- Swarm Management
- Workflow Automation
- Agent Orchestration
- Templates & Patterns
- Advanced Features
- Best Practices
Overview
Flow Nexus provides cloud-based orchestration for AI agent swarms with:
- Multi-topology Support: Hierarchical, mesh, ring, and star architectures
- Event-driven Workflows: Message queue processing with async execution
- Template Library: Pre-built swarm configurations for common use cases
- Intelligent Agent Assignment: Vector similarity matching for optimal agent selection
- Real-time Monitoring: Comprehensive metrics and audit trails
- Scalable Infrastructure: Cloud-based execution with auto-scaling
Swarm Management
Initialize Swarm
Create a new swarm with specified topology and configuration:
Topology Guide:
- Hierarchical: Tree structure with coordinator nodes (best for complex projects)
- Mesh: Peer-to-peer collaboration (best for research and analysis)
- Ring: Circular coordination (best for sequential workflows)
- Star: Centralized hub (best for simple delegation)
Strategy Guide:
- Balanced: Equal distribution of workload across agents
- Specialized: Agents focus on specific expertise areas
- Adaptive: Dynamic adjustment based on task complexity
Spawn Agents
Add specialized agents to the swarm:
Agent Types:
- Researcher: Information gathering, web search, analysis
- Coder: Code generation, refactoring, implementation
- Analyst: Data analysis, pattern recognition, insights
- Optimizer: Performance tuning, resource optimization
- Coordinator: Task delegation, progress tracking, integration
Orchestrate Tasks
Distribute tasks across the swarm:
Execution Strategies:
- Parallel: Maximum concurrency for independent subtasks
- Sequential: Step-by-step execution with dependencies
- Adaptive: AI-powered strategy selection based on task analysis
Monitor & Scale Swarms
Workflow Automation
Create Workflow
Define event-driven workflows with message queue processing:
Workflow Features:
- Dependency Management: Define step dependencies with
depends_on - Parallel Execution: Set
parallel: truefor concurrent steps - Event Triggers: GitHub events, schedules, manual triggers
- Retry Policies: Automatic retry on transient failures
- Priority Queuing: High-priority workflows execute first
Execute Workflow
Run workflows synchronously or asynchronously:
Execution Modes:
- Sync (async: false): Immediate execution, wait for completion
- Async (async: true): Message queue processing, non-blocking
Monitor Workflows
Agent Assignment
Intelligently assign agents to workflow tasks:
Vector Similarity Matching:
- Analyzes task requirements and agent capabilities
- Finds optimal agent based on past performance
- Considers workload and availability
Queue Management
Monitor and manage message queues:
Agent Orchestration
Full-Stack Development Pattern
Research & Analysis Pattern
CI/CD Pipeline Pattern
Data Processing Pipeline Pattern
Templates & Patterns
Use Pre-built Templates
Available Template Categories:
Quickstart Templates:
full-stack-dev: Complete web development swarmresearch-team: Research and analysis swarmcode-review: Automated code review swarmdata-pipeline: ETL and data processing
Specialized Templates:
ml-development: Machine learning project swarmmobile-dev: Mobile app developmentdevops-automation: Infrastructure and deploymentsecurity-audit: Security analysis and testing
Enterprise Templates:
enterprise-migration: Large-scale system migrationmulti-repo-sync: Multi-repository coordinationcompliance-review: Regulatory compliance workflowsincident-response: Automated incident management
Custom Template Creation
Save successful swarm configurations as reusable templates for future projects.
Advanced Features
Real-time Monitoring
Swarm Metrics & Analytics
Multi-Swarm Coordination
Coordinate multiple swarms for complex, multi-phase projects:
Best Practices
1. Choose the Right Topology
2. Optimize Agent Assignment
3. Implement Proper Error Handling
4. Monitor and Scale
5. Use Async Execution for Long-Running Workflows
6. Clean Up Resources
7. Leverage Templates
Integration with Claude Flow
Flow Nexus swarms integrate seamlessly with Claude Flow hooks:
Common Use Cases
1. Multi-Repo Development
- Coordinate development across multiple repositories
- Synchronized testing and deployment
- Cross-repo dependency management
2. Research Projects
- Distributed information gathering
- Parallel analysis of different data sources
- Collaborative synthesis and reporting
3. DevOps Automation
- Infrastructure as Code deployment
- Multi-environment testing
- Automated rollback and recovery
4. Code Quality Workflows
- Automated code review
- Security scanning
- Performance benchmarking
5. Data Processing
- Large-scale ETL pipelines
- Real-time data transformation
- Data validation and quality checks
Authentication & Setup
Support & Resources
- Platform: https://flow-nexus.ruv.io
- Documentation: https://github.com/ruvnet/flow-nexus
- Issues: https://github.com/ruvnet/flow-nexus/issues
Remember: Flow Nexus provides cloud-based orchestration infrastructure. For local execution and coordination, use the core claude-flow MCP server alongside Flow Nexus for maximum flexibility.


